1st Quarter Challenge: Group Reads

[Marina]

Update message #16:

All the Light We Cannot See

3/5

[Blagica , Challenges]

updated to here I am really glad you all enjoying your books!

[Julie]

I edited message 71

[Laura]

5/12 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

[Laura]

6/12 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

[Cheri]

Update: 4/4 -- challenge complete!!

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 stars)

[Blagica , Challenges]

Congrats Cheri!

[Cheri]

Blagica wrote: "Congrats Cheri!"

Thanks, Blagica! And thanks for moderating this! It's been fun. :)

[Blagica , Challenges]

anytime sweetheart feel free to keep reading i can always keep updating.

[Marina]

Update message #16:

Water for Elephants

Read: 4/5

[Amanda]

I've just read my 6th book - A Game of Thrones - message 80 updated to 6/8 - Amanda P

[Gretchen]

Edit message #23
Read 2/4

[Maria]

Updated message #81
Read 3/5

[Clare]

Updated message 60
now read 2/3

[Gretchen]

Edit Message #23
Read 2/4

[Amanda]

Message 80 updated - currently read 7/8

[Kelly]

Hey! I'm just working out which books I'm going to read to complete this challenge and was wondering if a current group read counts? I've seen some people use them but wasn't sure. I'm planning on reading I Am Malala which is our March group read, but would that count towards this challenge as it says previous group reads? Thanks! :)

[Blagica , Challenges]

Kelly people have been using it so I will say yes I plan on adding it as well.

[Carolyn]

Cassandra wrote: "GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

For this challenge, we're going to read old group reads! This challenge was brought back at the suggestion of several members of the grou..."

I am in for 3!

1. The Bell Jar
2. A Discovery of Witches
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[Amanda]

Updated #67 Amanda R

3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Completed 20/02/16 Rating 3 stars

3/5

[Christa]

All done!

10/10

✓ 1. All the Light We Cannot See
✓ 2. Station Eleven
✓ 3. Wool Omnibus
✓ 4. Matched
✓ 5. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
✓ 6. The Help
✓ 7. Life of Pi
✓ 8. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
✓ 9. A Thousand Splendid Suns
✓ 10. The Color Purple

Completed 2/22/2016

[Tawallah]

Updated message 83- CHALLENGE COMPLETED 3/3

[Gabriella]

I'll sign up for two. If I have time, I'll try to read another one.

1. A Game of Thrones
2. Americanah

[Jackie B. -]

4/3
Wow! Thanks to my book clubs, I'm really rocking on this challenge! Now I've read four books already when I originally committed to 3. And I will at least finish The Color Purple before the end of Q1 also for another book club. This is awesome. Thanks, life!

1. The Martian by Andy Weir -- Completed 2/9/16
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr -- Completed 2/13/16
3. The Color Purple
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness -- Completed 2/2/16a
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky -- Completed 2/13/16

[Stephanie]

Update: I finished 1! A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. It was SO good. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It felt very much like Romeo and Juliet without the antiquated language with witches and vampires. I will definitely be looking into the sequels (probably over the summer). The only thing that bothered me a little was how quickly the relationship between Diana and Matthew progressed from "Who the hell are you?" to "Oh my God, I can't live without you!" But, it is easily gotten over given how much interesting history is jammed into the book and how gosh darn entertaining it is. Good stuff.

[Blagica , Challenges]

awesome job i will fix everyone up after work!

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 19 with The Silver Linings Playbook, also I've decided to increase my goal to 10 from 5. I'm pretty confident about this. :)

4/10

[Blagica , Challenges]

Congrats Jackie June and Christa everyone is up to date!

[Amanda]

Hi! Just updated message 64 with The Martian, now 1/6 . Also, I have a quick question: will February & March's group reads count? Thanks! =)

[Nik]

Amanda wrote: "I have a quick question: will February & March's group reads count? Thanks! =)"

Hi, Amanda,

So far, yes, many of us have been counting the current month's group read for this challenge (I counted January and February).

[Blagica , Challenges]

thanks Nik!

[Amanda]

Nik wrote: "Amanda wrote: "I have a quick question: will February & March's group reads count? Thanks! =)"

Hi, Amanda,

So far, yes, many of us have been counting the current month's group read for this chall..."

Okay, great. Thank you!!!

[Amanda]

I've finished my 8th book and have updated message 80 - challenge complete!!

I'm going to continue, and I think I'm going to make it an annual challenge for me personally. Of the 51 group read books in 2012-2015, I have now read 32, so I'm going to see how many more I can read this year.

[Kelly]

Updated #35.

The Silver Linings Playbook ✔

2/4 complete.

[Nik]

[6/3] (OM 76)

1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (★★★★★)
2. The Night Circus (★★★★★)
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (★★★★)
4. The Martian (★★★★★)
5. The Witches: Salem, 1692 (★★)
6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (★★★★)

/NN

[Janine]

Updated message 86. I've completed my challenge 4/4.

I read The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America for my final book. That being said I've already got Americanah on my to-read list for March so I don't think I'm quite finished with the list!

[Blagica , Challenges]

Congrats Janine and Amanda! everything is up to date

[Marina]

I would like to change my goal to 4 books, which also means that I've completed the challenge.

[Emma]

Update msg 44 read 4/5

[Emma]

read 5/5 books - msg 44

[Paul Emily]

Updated message 19 with The Golem and the Djinni (****)

5/10

[Kadijah Michelle]

Updated message 7:

I have increased my goal to 6.

4/6 completed.

[Laura]

7/12 The Bell Jar ..still stuck on catch 22!

[Blagica , Challenges]

congrats to everyone who has finished and I appluad those who increased your goal all up to date! Happy March and Happy Reading!

[Laura]

8/12 Finally finished Catch-22

[Stephanie (Chinchillita)]

Update Message 40
I'm going to attempt to get 5 this quarter!
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
The Rosie Project
4/5

[Jackie B. -]

Updated Message 59

Wow! Thanks to my book clubs aligning to the stars of Group Reads on this list, I've flown far past my original goal of 3 books. I really want to read both The Rosie Project and Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, but I don't know if they will get done this quarter. Definitely on my list for the future, though!

5/3

1. The Martian by Andy Weir -- Completed 2/9/16
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr -- Completed 2/13/16
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker -- Completed 3/5/16
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness -- Completed 2/2/16a
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky -- Completed 2/13/16

[Sheryl_at_Ubookquitous]

updated post 82 - changed out a book and am now 2/3

[Susan C]

Updated message 34

2/3

[Winter, Group Reads]

update : 3/3, Finished!